Overall, I found the draft excellent, although I have a few comments. Some of the comments are minor or involve just some literature references that I think it would be important to have, and are made directly on the draft attached, as comments.
But here I mention three things that I think are substantial and whose consideration will significantly improve the relevance of the report:
- There is little reference to the role of biodiversity in food systems. This is a bit unexpected, considering the various relatively recent reports indicating that biodiversity is extremely important. There is a brief reference to biodiversity of food systems, but perhaps it could be unpacked a bit more, both in terms of the role of wild diversity embedded in food-prducing landscapes and also the importance to have high intraspecific diversity of crops and farm animals, something that is being lost fast due to the dominant model of international food trade. I have provided a couple of references.
- There is almost no reference to the impacts of food systems (production and distribution chains). Again, this is a bit odd considering that food systems are considering one of the major (problably THE major) factor behind nature decline and climate change. Of course the focus of this report is different, but I think some mention should be made: food systems do not happen in a vaccumm and all the increased resilience and justice should not be sought after without considering the environmental impacts/ sustainability as well.
In relation the the second point above, I think some explicit link should be made regarding the very advanced IPBES
Thematic assessment of the interlinkages among biodiversity, water, food and health
I think it could be mentioned and explain why and how it will not be yet another partially overlapping international report (:) ) but something complementary and synergistic.
Thank you again for involving me in this great initiative.
All the best
Sandra Díaz (ella)
Investigadora Superior CONICET
Instituto Multidisciplinario de Biología Vegetal
Profesora Titular Ecología de Comunidades y Ecosistemas, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba
Sandra Díaz